Global climate change has potential

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Climate Change

Global climate change has the potential to be one of the most challenging issues of our time. While there are still many uncertainties about its exact effects, we are already beginning to see rapid changes which may foreshadow coming shifts in both regional and global weather patterns. Most students understand the basic idea of global warming, but many often get confused between the fact and the fiction of what is actually predicted to occur and how these changes are closely related to what is happening in the ocean.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the world authority on climatic issues. It is made up of hundreds of scientists from all around the world from a diversity of backgrounds. Their goal is to "assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the latest scientific, technical and socio-economic literature produced worldwide relevant to the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change, its observed and projected impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation".

Your task is to investigate the current scientific consensus that is described in the report as well as any other peer-reviewed reports that you can find that has been written on the subject in the last few years. Then take ONE specific potential change that may occur in the next hundred years and explain the details of what may happen and what the resulting effects may be for the local people, plants, or animals. Do you believe that this is a major problem, and if so, what do you think should be done about it

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